@Cătă Well, that's what it is. It's the wording chosen back when add-ons were renamed "apps".
Basically, you "install" the "app" on your channel. It integrates the functionality of the "app" into your channel instead of just turning it on, and it adds or makes it possible to add links to the "app" to the navigation bar and/or the burger menu.
I'm not a Hubzilla dev. But it could be a different case of how add-ons work. I guess add-ons on Friendica are integrated into your account right away, you just turn them on and off, whereas on Hubzilla, "installing" an "app" does not turn the existing functionality in your channel on, but it builds the functionality into your channel in the first place. Especially PubCrawl is something that digs deeply into how your channel works, especially how nomadic identity works.
Don't forget that Hubzilla is not Friendica with nomadic identity and wikis and a different protocol. When Mike turned Friendica into Red, he re-wrote the entire backend from scratch.
This wording may actually be as old as Red. Trying to have it changed now would be like complaining that identities plus content are named "channels" on Hubzilla (and everything that has come after Hubzilla) because the term "channels" is being used in different contexts by other projects nowadays. It'd be like complaining that Hubzilla, like Friendica before it, has its own term for a server instance instead of officially calling it an "instance" or a "server".
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Basically, you "install" the "app" on your channel. It integrates the functionality of the "app" into your channel instead of just turning it on, and it adds or makes it possible to add links to the "app" to the navigation bar and/or the burger menu.
I'm not a Hubzilla dev. But it could be a different case of how add-ons work. I guess add-ons on Friendica are integrated into your account right away, you just turn them on and off, whereas on Hubzilla, "installing" an "app" does not turn the existing functionality in your channel on, but it builds the functionality into your channel in the first place. Especially PubCrawl is something that digs deeply into how your channel works, especially how nomadic identity works.
Don't forget that Hubzilla is not Friendica with nomadic identity and wikis and a different protocol. When Mike turned Friendica into Red, he re-wrote the entire backend from scratch.
This wording may actually be as old as Red. Trying to have it changed now would be like complaining that identities plus content are named "channels" on Hubzilla (and everything that has come after Hubzilla) because the term "channels" is being used in different contexts by other projects nowadays. It'd be like complaining that Hubzilla, like Friendica before it, has its own term for a server instance instead of officially calling it an "instance" or a "server".
#Long #LongPost CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla
petrescatraian@libranet.de 3 months ago
@jupiter_rowland yea, I know. Front-end-wise though the difference between the two words doesn't make any sense, as the addon/app thingie still has to be added by the admin for you to be able to use it (but that's my 2¢ I guess 😁).
They are indeed two very complex and powerful projects and I'm glad they exist. Hope they take off even more like Mastodon and Lemmy did.
jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu 3 months ago
They do come pre-installed on the server.
Hubzilla is installed and upgraded using git. And in doing so, not only https://framagit.org/hubzilla/core is sourced, but so are always automatically https://framagit.org/hubzilla/addons and https://framagit.org/hubzilla/themes. All that stuff is on the server hard drive from the get-go.
What the admin can do is activate and deactivate access to the addons. In the case of PubCrawl, it's activated after installation by default.
It's not like the hubmin installs Hubzilla without PubCrawl, then clones an independent git repository containing PubCrawl into the Hubzilla server, and then goes to the admin interface to switch it on.
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petrescatraian@libranet.de 3 months ago